UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab wins “Best of What’s New” award in Popular Science

April 14, 2021

The SkySweeper robot, designed by Nick Morozovsky in the UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab, has won a “Best of What’s New” award in Popular Science.  Skysweeper is a simple V-shaped robotic design for power line inspection tasks.  It has a motor-driven “elbow” in the middle, and "hands" equipped with clamps that open and close to move down a line in an inchworm motion. The clamps can also release from the line one at a time and swing in a hand-over-hand motion, allowing the robot to swing past cable support points.  For the full story, click here and here.